Chapter 26 Scarlet Coffin
Perhaps sensing the presence of living people, the coffin lid began to creak.
As the coffin lid was slowly pushed open, the temperature in the basement seemed to drop by several degrees more.
Bai Anting looked at the eerie red coffin in front of her, a little at a loss for what to do.
The moment the coffin was opened, a steady stream of blood seeped out from the cracks.
The blood seemed to come alive, slowly spreading outwards, and gradually approaching the two of them.
Such a chilling sight made Bai Anting involuntarily take a step back.
The audience in the livestream room exploded.
“666, the streamer didn’t even scream, her psychological quality is really not bad.”
“A bleeding coffin, a grim basement, this place looks abnormal no matter how you look at it, I bet five yuan the streamer will die.”
“I don’t think she’ll die.”
“…”
The audience found the scene very stimulating.
Qin Liu held the lantern in her hand, staring intently at the red coffin.
The coffin remained motionless.
At this moment, Bai Anting saw a message in the livestream room.
Bai Bai Bai Wu Chang: Streamer, take a picture with your phone, you might see something good.
Seeing the familiar ID, Bai Anting quickly did as she was told, aiming the camera at the coffin.
She pressed the shutter button several times.
Then she looked at the photos she had just taken.
Then, she was stunned.
Inside the coffin, surrounded by people in strange clothes, they were holding items used for exorcism, looking like ghost exorcists.
But when she flipped to the second photo, she saw that all these ghost exorcists had turned their heads and were looking at Bai Anting.
The third photo… they were walking towards her, and in the last photo, Bai Anting could clearly see the ferocious faces hidden under the black robes of these ghost exorcists.
Seeing the bluish faces of these people, Bai Anting’s scalp tingled with fear. She quickly retreated and hid behind Qin Liu.
Her gaze shifted back to the coffin.
But apart from the red coffin continuously seeping blood, she saw no one else.
Even Qin Liu, who was also a ghost, seemed to have not noticed the presence of these ghost exorcists.
What exactly were they?
“I’ll go take a look.”
Qin Liu didn’t know what had happened. She mustered her courage and cautiously walked towards the open red coffin.
Peeking through the opening in the coffin, Qin Liu saw that it was empty, filled only with a red, unknown liquid that filled the entire coffin.
Qin Liu wasn’t sure if it was blood, as she didn’t smell the unique腥味 of human blood.
But she didn’t dare to reach into this red liquid.
After all, she was very timid.
“Ding~”
Just then, a voice like AI came from Bai Anting’s phone.
“Congratulations on successfully finding the corpse hidden in the mountain village,”
“The mission is complete,”
“Please leave this village within three minutes,”
“Otherwise, you will be forever trapped here!”
Qin Liu naturally heard the prompt from Bai Anting’s phone. Although she didn’t know what was happening yet, she still said to Bai Anting.
“It looks like we can leave now, right?”
“Should… be able to.”
Bai Anting dared not make a definitive statement, but now she could only trust the prompt on her phone.
The non-human ghost exorcists in the photos made Bai Anting not dare to stay in this place for long.
She clutched her phone tightly, then grabbed Qin Liu’s hand, and the two of them went up the stairs, escaping to the outside of the basement.
The rain outside had stopped by then. Rain in this season comes and goes quickly.
Bai Anting looked outside, and all the fierce ghosts that had been lurking in the living room were gone.
This made her breathe a sigh of relief.
Now, the top priority was not to uncover the mystery of the mountain village ghost, she was just an ordinary person, and there was only one thing to do.
Run quickly!
Ghost catching should be left to professional ghost exorcists like Liu Haoyu.
As an ordinary person, she shouldn’t get involved in this matter.
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The morning sun pierced through the clouds.
The girl stood on the side of the road near the Stone Turtle Reservoir, looking up towards the village, and breathed a sigh of relief.
A night of adventure without danger, at least she survived.
Qin Liu glanced at the time and said.
“I don’t know how Liu Haoyu is doing.”
“So, didn’t this big shot come with you?”
“Qiu Leling was also targeted by the ghost on the bus, so we split up. He went to find Qiu Leling, and I came to find you.”
As the two chatted, Bai Anting, holding the black book, walked slowly along the road.
The black book, after hearing their conversation, said.
“He finished a long time ago, but it seems he is still comforting Qiu Leling. That little guy’s resilience is not as strong as yours.”
“This…”
Bai Anting now understood, it seemed her good friend had also not escaped.
Something seemed wrong…
Why did she still remember Qiu Leling? If her presence had been erased, logically, she should have forgotten about her too.
As Bai Anting was thinking, a bus slowly drove by.
Bai Anting looked back and found it was the haunted bus 514.
The bus slowly stopped in front of the two of them.
Qin Liu glanced inside the bus, including the driver’s cabin, where no one was present.
It was empty and very quiet.
“Stone Turtle Reservoir has arrived… Next stop Gui Ping District Bus Station, passengers boarding please use the front door…”
Qin Liu fell into thought. Gui Ping Bus Station was very close to… Liu Zining’s home. Should she get on and take a look?
After a moment of thought, this little ghost got on the bus.
This move startled Bai Anting.
But thinking about how this little ghost had been killing all over the place just now, she tacitly put away her worry.
She always felt that worrying about Qin Liu was less important than worrying about the ghosts on the bus.
Qin Liu walked around the bus for a while, finding nothing unusual, so she said to Bai Anting outside the car.
“Get on, you’re a dead pig that’s not afraid of boiling water anymore.”
“…Damn.”
Bai Anting, whose presence had been erased, could not refute.
She took a deep breath and then got on the bus.
Since the sun had already come out, there weren’t many viewers left in the livestream room.
The working hours in the underworld were the opposite of the human world, these viewers should have gone to sleep.
Although there were a few who stayed up late, Bai Anting still closed the livestream room.
The bus slowly moved forward. Qin Liu, who had been up all night, felt a little sleepy after sitting down.
She yawned, preparing to close her eyes for a little while.
Bai Anting sat next to Qin Liu. Seeing Qin Liu so comfortable, her always tense heart began to relax.
The two gradually drifted off to sleep.
The black book in Bai Anting’s arms also naturally climbed onto the girl’s head.
Bai Anting’s front armor was a bit hard and uncomfortable.
In her dream, Qin Liu opened her eyes again.
She found herself still inside the bus.
However, this bus did not have the unpleasant earthy smell. The cabin was clean and tidy. Because it was morning rush hour, the seats were full of people.
But these people didn’t notice Qin Liu’s presence. She was like an observer from a god’s-eye view, only able to sit quietly.
“Driver, I want to get off! I missed my stop!”
An untimely voice sounded in the carriage.
This voice sounded very urgent, even a bit irritable.
“Cangjiang Bridge cannot stop, if you miss your stop, wait for the next one.”
The driver’s emotions were very normal.
“It’s less than a hundred meters past the stop! I can’t walk back from the next stop, can I!?”
“You can’t stop here!”
“…”
The argument in the car became more and more intense, and almost all the passengers noticed this unreasonable woman.
But no one present spoke up or intervened.
Qin Liu also cast her gaze forward.
This was in the past, when the bus driver’s cabin and the carriage were not separated by a partition, and that female passenger was standing next to the driver.
The argument between the two became increasingly heated.
But Qin Liu vaguely felt something was wrong.
The passenger had a scarlet, terrifying brand on her neck.
Patterns spread outwards from her feet, until they completely eroded the entire floor of the bus.
But all the passengers on the bus did not notice this.
They were all indifferently watching this farce.
As the argument intensified, the scarlet patterns even spread to everyone, and even the calm driver became a little irritable.
“I said, you can’t stop here! Do you have ears?!”
“I don’t care!”
At this moment, the female passenger suddenly made a move, grabbing the steering wheel, and with force in her other hand, repeatedly hit the driver’s head with her phone.
The two began to wrestle, but no one on the bus stepped forward to mediate.
Until the bus completely lost control, like a wild horse, it broke through the guardrail and plunged into the bottomless Cangjiang amidst screams.
